Doujin Work

The complete list of Manga Time Kirara, the god of CGDCT, anime adaptations as of now.
***Only the main series are included because of the limited space.***

Anime that has an otaku as the main character.

As far as I'm concerned there's an anime about pretty much everything if you look hard enough: diving, underwear design, insurance investigation (yup!) and don't even get me started on cooking. So there, picked titles with main characters directly involved and at least some focus on whatever they're doing for a living or a hobby or both.

Part two^ https://myanimelist.net/stacks/30206 (it's a work in progress though)

Bygone days spent as an otaku, often captured in OVA format, have been lost as trends shifted. It’s undeniably melancholic to see the evolving portrayal of otaku in a meta-sense and slowly watching the dwindling importance of Akiba-kei.

This will serve as a continually-updated list of anime that I feel are representative of "otakucore" being a type of show that promonently features otaku characters as one of the main characters, and depictes the zeitgeist of otaku culture/Akiba-kei during the time of airing. Some are less obvious as otaku-oriented, but still contain many elements that are appealing to databasing-types (computers, figures, video games etc.)

Genshiken, Daicon IV and Otaku no Video are the essentials :3

(Still adding WIP)

This is a weird concept for a list, but I think it's worth putting it out there. These are anime which I consider help understand anime better because of their referential humour, commentary on otaku culture (whether it's anime or gaming), exploration of the industry and twisting of classic tropes in self-aware ways that put them in perspective. Also included a couple shows which are not necessarily meta or referential, but they are here for being aggresively "anime" in nature, if that makes sense. With how over the top they are and/or how stereotypically otaku their concepts are, I think they give a good idea of how anime has developed.

Note: If you truly want to understand otaku culture and anime history, I think an absolute essential is a short show called "Blue Blazers". It is live action however, so it can't be added here. I strongly recommend you check it out, even if the humour can be cringy, because of how deep of an insight it gives into the history of anime and the industry.

Made this interest stack to help locate 4-koma based anime for challenges and achievements more easily.

A Yonkoma (literally, "four-cell") Manga, better known as 4-Koma, is a short comic that consists of four panels arranged vertically from beginning to end, often adopting a plot structure known as "Kishotenketsu". Like western comic stripsnote , they are often found in newspapers, magazines, graphic novels, and other places. 4-Koma can be single-shot gags, or tell a story across several strips. (Notice that it isn't shikoma.) Expect nothing short of a Rapid-Fire Comedy from 4-Koma mangas, since they fire at least one joke every four frames.

[Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Yonkoma ; https://anime.jhiday.net/hof/challenge/adaptations]

Trope Maker: Sazae-san (1969)

MORE FOUND HERE: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15811

Shows that are adaptations of manga published under the Manga Time Kirara magazines. For shows with multiple seasons/movies/ovas/etc only the first season is included

Animes that first appeared or were on Manga Time Kirara or Manga Time (Original)

This stack is dedicated to anime that portray show business and entertainment media in a realistic, often quite dark and serious light. It's still not necessarily show without fancervice, but you won't see pure waifu or hasubendo bait here.

Include movies and OVA's. Goes from 2007-2015. Does not include recaps or small specials. Is chronologically ordered.
Also includes other Houbunsha manga titles (Manga Time + Manga Time Jumbo) for a lack of a better place to add them otherwise.
Edit 28-11-2023: added Hidamari Sketch specials as they are full-length episodes.
Edit 06-04-2024: added Aldnoah.Zero (both parts) as it was published in Manga Time Kirara Forward.

Here also the link for 2016-2025 Manga Time Kirara adaptations: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35142

The Arts are made up of three types: Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Theater, Cosplaying, Acting, etc.), Visual Arts (Painting, Drawing, Film Making, Animation, Video Game Creation, Photography, etc.) and Literary Arts (Novel/Light Novel Writing, Manga/Doujin Writing, Lyric Writing, Journalism, Magazines, Editing, Dictionary Writing, Ghost Writing, etc.). While Performing Arts and Visual Arts have tags on MyAnimeList, Literary Arts do not, so this interest stack is rectifying that. Literary Arts have a long history with anime like the other two art forms, so this includes a wide variety of them. It may also include some that are about being passionate for literature rather than writing itself. Some series are excluded if they lean more towards Performing Arts or Visual Arts than Literary Arts, such as Kodocha, Saekano or The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. While some series may have major characters who are novelists, it needs to have Literary Arts be an important aspect of the plot in order for it to be included. Also, there will only be one series per franchise for the sake of variety.

Underrated gems that flew under the radar

Anime with short episode lengths.

anime made by m.o.e. (Master of Entertainment)

𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙐𝙇𝘼𝙍 𝙐𝙋𝘿𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙎 | 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙎𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 | 𝙑𝙄𝙎𝙄𝙏 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙁𝙄𝙇𝙀 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀
Anime where the main premise is about art, mangaka, calligraphy etc. (Work in progress)

Grumpy Jii-san was an anime reviewer and hiking enthusiast. Many of us were fond of him. This is the third part of a list of the anime he reviewed in video order from oldest to newest. They are presented without his score as mild encouragement for you to watch his reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@GrumpyJiisan